Time out during createdb

I just pulled a clean copy of Keel from CVS and am at a loss to explain this
behavior.  I have a slightly older version of Keel 2.1 with my app on another
machine and it works create including "createdb".  This is against MySQL. 
However, with this latest Keel, I receive "Channel timeout exceptions" when
running createdb.  

One thing that I notice that is off in the new version (with a blank database)
is that a few default users that I have setup in my system.xconf are being
created, but the keel default ones no longer are (root, guest, anon).  But
these get created fine in a new blank database with my older Keel.  Also I see
in the database that the new users I am creating have automatically generated
ids that are 0, 1, 2; even though I specified those ids should be 3, 4, 5 in my
system.xconf; and of course those uniqid's are supposed to belong to root,
guest and anon.  Has something changed with the keygen code to cause this?

Thank you, 
Nate